Mediocre Videogame Movie Director Uwe Boll Retires, Says "The Market is Dead"
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It's kind of funny that you say you're making a grammatical point while the grammar it he second part is so bad it makes it difficult to understand and I'm not sure I'm fully understanding what you're trying to say. Sorry to make fun if English isn't your first language.Living_Brain said:
A laziness defense? You can make that point, I guess, but half assing a production doesn't insulate you from the fallout, it isn't a shield, just an explanation. If M. Night Shyamalan came out tomorrow and said, 'just kidding guys, I just haven't been really trying since Unbreakable', it doesn't change the quality of his directing during that time. The only difference would be, that on top of being a s*** director, I'd be mad at him.
Came in here to post this.Aiddon said:
Uwe Boll could make the kind of garbage he did for one simple reason - He never had to sell a single copy. A single DVD or Bluray. He could make money off his films even if literally nobody ever saw them. Not to go into details here, but it was a tax incentive loophole and it finally got closed. So now he's facing the reality of having to make films anyone would actually want to watch. And to him it's a daunting prospect. So he's "bowing out".
I'm actually kinda sad. His antics were entertaining and the films mostly worked as laughable schlock, if you're into that sort of thing. I actually will miss him.
So I've just looked at this guy's <a href=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0093051/?ref_=nv_sr_1>IMDb page and with all honesty I can say I've only seen one of those films - Alone in the Dark - which I have to say was, while not actually bad, still decidedly below par. Anyone know why we should care if he's gone or not?
Today I am sad, I am sad that Germany closed it's loop hole that Boll exploited for years.
Ok people, the 'Boll Horse' is dead. Half of you go over there the M Night Shamylion, the other half; Michael Bay. C'mon, we can do this.
Ok people, the 'Boll Horse' is dead. Half of you go over there the M Night Shamylion, the other half; Michael Bay. C'mon, we can do this.
notorious would be a far suitable word.
good. this guy is gone. for making crappy movies, is no wonder he retired. the only movies that were actually watchable, were the rampage series. i havent seen the third one but the first 2 were (i cant believe im saying this) good. but thats about it.
well, he will always be know for ruining game based movies. and i dont think in 10 years this will change any time soon.
came across this video that shows his 10 worst movies. even movies i didnt know or seen. postal was certainly never released in austalia. from the looks of it, im glad it wasnt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SYQ2Xmx-Lg
good. this guy is gone. for making crappy movies, is no wonder he retired. the only movies that were actually watchable, were the rampage series. i havent seen the third one but the first 2 were (i cant believe im saying this) good. but thats about it.
well, he will always be know for ruining game based movies. and i dont think in 10 years this will change any time soon.
came across this video that shows his 10 worst movies. even movies i didnt know or seen. postal was certainly never released in austalia. from the looks of it, im glad it wasnt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SYQ2Xmx-Lg
His video game movies weren't great (except Postal was pretty damn funny) but some of his over movies were really good.Marter said:
Both Rampage http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1337057/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_16 and Tunnel Rats http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970462/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_19 were well crafted and had engaging stories.
Didn't Boll make most of his money using tax loopholes? This is clearly another example of big government crushing the dreams of the independent artist...
Seriously I have to admit to being a little saddened by this. Uwe is not simply Mediocre. He is bad in a spectacularly insanely watchable way. He has been the modern generations Roger Corman. He will be long remembered after such contemporaries as Brett Ratner and Zach Snyder are long forgotten.
Seriously I have to admit to being a little saddened by this. Uwe is not simply Mediocre. He is bad in a spectacularly insanely watchable way. He has been the modern generations Roger Corman. He will be long remembered after such contemporaries as Brett Ratner and Zach Snyder are long forgotten.
You haven't been keeping up with the freshest memes or the chillest dudes. Just google "sometimes you don't think it be like it is, but it do". Or google "freshest clothes and hangs out with the chillest dudes" while you're on that (though this second one I would never expect you to know)Ukomba said:
Ukomba" post="7.943968.23819721 said:
Not a fan of his, literally don't care about Boll at all. Let's go back to how this discussion started. A user was upset that the author called uwe boll mediocre in the title. I pointed out that the author intended the word mediocre to be an adverb for "video game movie", not an adjective of "director".Ukomba said:
I did not imply any of my own opinions on Uwe Boll or his movies, in fact I have no personal opinion or knowledge on Uwe Boll or any of his movies. I don't recall seeing a single movie of his, though I probably have seen one at some point.
Everything I said about his work and such is based off of what others in this thread have said.
You want to call him shit? Go ahead. That doesn't affect my original point, or anything at all, actually.
PS. No, poor literacy isn't cool, but it can be funny when seen and referenced. That's why Your Grammar Sucks is a funny series, and why misspelled, nearly unintelligible chats can be memed to death through repetition and adaptation to context. If you wanna be stuck up and humorless, not easy going but argumentative, that's also a choice you can make.
Yes, blame the market, and not because you are a shitty, shitty director. Did I mention shitty? Yeah, I think so.
I wonder if this isn't related to the flop that was Warcraft (on where actual effort was put into it, actual interest and hope were made about it, and yet the fears of it being bad were still partially realized), and the fact that his own horrible movie making destroyed the public opinion of video game movies to such a degree there was no more demand for it anyways? Oh, and the likelihood that after the series of failures he made, game rights owner simply refused to let him represent their valuable IP for fear of the inevitable depreciated value his actions would cause it.
Add all that into the tax loophole close, and it would look like a lot of work to be profitable.
This very much reads like a snakeoil salesmen saying they are "retiring" after practice medicine without a license was outlawed, the ingredients they used are no longer being sold, and the townsfolk are all horribly aware of how worthless his tonic is.
Add all that into the tax loophole close, and it would look like a lot of work to be profitable.
This very much reads like a snakeoil salesmen saying they are "retiring" after practice medicine without a license was outlawed, the ingredients they used are no longer being sold, and the townsfolk are all horribly aware of how worthless his tonic is.
Good riddance you piece of shit, this was faaaaar too long overdue. His movies are the only actual ones that bring pain to sit through, and even though he is stopping, that won't bring back the atrocities he's committed against the video game culture, and the actors that ruined or damaged their careers through his artistic botchery (yes, I made up that word)
*sigh* In defense of Uwe Boll. He's a genuine asshole sure. But he didn't just rip the film rights from studios and produce them at gun point. If video games want to be taken serious as movies, they KNEW what they was getting with Uwe Boll. They deserved the film they bankrolled. You can't complain about the product when you went to the cheapest man on the pole.
And, he does know how to frame a shot. He CAN direct some, he just had no interest in doing so with the stupid video game movies he didn't play, wasn't a fan of, and knew he could use the law to break above even on. From a business standpoint he did what he set out to accomplish. It was terrible, but he did it.
No, don't hate Uwe Boll for his films, hate him as a person and hate video game studios for letting him piss on their IP. Lego can produce a genuine success, and Disney can produce a great video game movie about a fictional video-game. There is no excuse for video game movies to be as bad as they are.
And, he does know how to frame a shot. He CAN direct some, he just had no interest in doing so with the stupid video game movies he didn't play, wasn't a fan of, and knew he could use the law to break above even on. From a business standpoint he did what he set out to accomplish. It was terrible, but he did it.
No, don't hate Uwe Boll for his films, hate him as a person and hate video game studios for letting him piss on their IP. Lego can produce a genuine success, and Disney can produce a great video game movie about a fictional video-game. There is no excuse for video game movies to be as bad as they are.
